A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on adolescent health among the students in selected school of Pune city

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescence, the second decade of life, a period in which an individual undergoes major physical and psychological changes. Alongside, there are enormous changes to person’s social interaction and relationships. It is a phase in an individual’s life rather than a fix time period, a phase in which an individual is no longer a child but is not yet an adult. Adolescence has also been described as “demographically dense”: a period in life during which a large percentage of people experience a large percentage of key life-course events.

Aim and objective: A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on adolescent health among the students in selected school of pune city.

Method: The research design used was one-group pre-test post-test pre-experiment design; Non probability purposive sampling technique was used. The sample was selected from the English medium School of Pune city. The samples consist of 59 students from 6th standard and 41 students from 7th standard school children from the respective English medium school of Pune City. A structural questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge regarding adolescent health.

Results: The main finding of the study shows that there was increase in the knowledge of the preadolescent girls after planned teaching programme. As there was significant difference between in the knowledge score after planned teaching programme, as calculated Z value (24.88) was greater than 1.96 at 0.05 level of significant.

Conclusion: The study shows that the planned teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge of the pre-adolescent girls regarding adolescent health.